Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 33

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Chapter 33 11. Alien (1)

First Gyeongbuk First Sword.

As Young-woo read through all the text, the title he possessed was newly changed.

Flash!

「Gyeongbuk First Sword」 – Epic Title

【First Sword’s Authority】

【Voting Rights】

【Gyeongbuk Sword Technique】

‘Huh…? An effect was added.’

Two things stood out the most.

First was that the title’s grade had changed from ‘Unique’ to ‘Epic’.

And second was that an option called ‘Voting Rights’ had been added.

Voting rights… it meant he could exercise authority in deliberative bodies like councils or shareholders’ meetings.

Then what exactly would these votes be about?

‘Seeing how they give voting rights starting from regional First Swords, this must be no ordinary authority.’

Whatever it was, to use this authority, he’d need to stay alive first.

“…”

Young-woo put the bracelet that Dokgo Se-hwan had left behind on his own arm, then took the Early Bird he had been holding and stuffed it inside his backpack.

Then.

Crash!

He looked at Kim Hyun-ho, who was pushing through Sangju City’s skilled fighters like a bulldozer from the other side.

「Graaaah!」

His battle cry, delivered along with his blade, contained a complex tangle of emotions.

Anger, sadness, and joy.

Well, from his perspective, he was slaughtering the enemies who had killed him.

At the same time, he was also harming Sangju citizens while abandoning his duties as Sangju Mayor.

[Sangju Mayor – Kim Hyun-ho]

Young-woo briefly looked at the name tag above the mutant’s head, then gripped his Early Bird and rushed out.

Dash!

The skilled fighters who had come to help Sangju First Sword had already been reduced to two, and they were even showing their backs to Kim Hyun-ho as they fled.

However, their escape didn’t seem likely to succeed.

Both of them were already under Kim Hyun-ho’s massive shadow.

Whoosh!

Finally, Sangju Mayor Kim Hyun-ho swung his sword toward the fleeing men.

And at the same time.

―Break

―Break

Two ‘Break’ markers appeared in Young-woo’s vision as he chased after the mayor.

This meant that while this attack wouldn’t kill the opponent, it could disrupt their stance.

The two markers were attached to Kim Hyun-ho’s lower back and the hind legs of the Black Horse he was riding, and according to the hologram, both attacks were ‘Throwing Attacks’.

He was supposed to throw the Early Bird and dagger from his belt in succession.

“…!”

Following the guide, Young-woo threw both weapons and ran toward Kim Hyun-ho’s left flank.

The hologram in his vision was also running in that direction.

‘Why so suddenly…?’

This was the first time the hologram had used space so extensively, but Young-woo followed the guide without complaint.

Because.

「…!」

Kim Hyun-ho, who had somehow noticed the rear ambush, pulled back the sword he was about to swing at the fleeing men and deflected the dagger Young-woo had thrown.

While doing so, he also twisted his body at an unbelievable angle to dodge the Early Bird flying toward his lower back.

―Void

―Void

Both markers changed to ‘Void’ in succession, but the hologram’s battle was still ongoing.

Soon the hologram, having positioned itself at Kim Hyun-ho’s flank, pulled its arm back in a weapon retrieval gesture, and Young-woo quickly followed suit, calling back both weapons.

Flash!

Then the Early Bird and dagger, which had bounced off in different directions, returned simultaneously and attempted a diversionary attack.

Seeing this, Young-woo finally realized.

‘Higher-level sword techniques provide much more sophisticated guidance.’

Of course, the belt’s Remote Retrieval function alone wouldn’t be enough to deal fatal damage to Kim Hyun-ho.

But.

Swish!

If somehow the blades could just touch his body…

―Break

―Break

Finally, ‘Break’ markers appeared again on the tips of the two weapons cutting through the air, and Young-woo saw one of them change to ‘Void’ shortly after.

Clang!

Kim Hyun-ho had twisted his sword once more to deflect the Early Bird.

The dagger that arrived half a beat later was deflected by his left arm wrapped in a gauntlet.

Ting!

At this moment, the ‘Break’ marker attached to the dagger turned red and vibrated.

「Huh?」

It was also then that Kim Hyun-ho’s shadow, which had seemed like a tall fortress, swayed greatly back and forth.

The unique effect of Golden Punishment had been applied.

【Inflict pain on enemy.】

‘There it is! The opportunity…!’

As Young-woo’s eyes flashed while drawing the Early Bird that had returned to his waist, Kim Hyun-ho twisted his left arm and looked at Young-woo with the head attached beneath it.

「You bastard…!」

But contrary to his angry words, his eyes were shaking violently.

He felt fear toward Young-woo, who had inflicted tremendous pain with just a touch.

Kim Hyun-ho couldn’t say another word and spurred his horse toward the two fugitives who were already fleeing far in the distance.

Thud thud thud!

‘He has no intention of fighting me.’

However, the pain that had begun once did not easily let Kim Hyun-ho go.

「Urgh!」

Even while riding his horse to avoid Young-woo, he bent his waist violently several times.

But that didn’t make him stop his horse.

Rather.

Thud thud thud thud!

He drove his horse even more fiercely, closing the distance with the fugitives, then swung his sword brutally.

Swoooosh!

The fugitives’ bodies were cut in half with a heavy sound of cutting through air.

Then Kim Hyun-ho’s black horse trampled their corpses with its hooves as it passed.

It was purely an act of revenge.

And seeing this, Young-woo had an intuition. That Kim Hyun-ho might really be innocent.

“Mayor Kim Hyun-ho! I heard there were some unsavory suspicions about you. Is that true?”

When Young-woo shouted this, Kim Hyun-ho’s body momentarily hesitated.

But that was all. He didn’t stop, and instead turned direction and began racing somewhere.

He was probably heading to a place where many people had gathered.

It seemed like he was thinking to slaughter as many people as possible before his strength ran out.

Young-woo also increased his speed and called his name.

“Kim Hyun-ho!”

Then finally, he looked back again.

「Suspicions or whatever, you people already killed me. Now there’s only one thing I need to do. Fuck you all over. I’ve been waiting for this moment all along.」

It was a tone that would sound sincere to anyone who heard it, not just Young-woo.

‘Telling him to return quietly won’t work at all.’

Young-woo made a disgusted expression as he felt sizzling malice emanating even from Kim Hyun-ho’s back.

It seemed he wouldn’t be making any friends in Sangju.

Thud thud thud thud thud…!

Kim Hyun-ho’s momentum, which had been wavering, gradually came back to life, and the movement of the black horse he rode also began to get faster.

The pain from Golden Punishment was subsiding.

‘I need to settle this here. If he enters the urban area, dozens of people will be cut down with each swing of his sword.’

The apartment complex could already be seen in the distance.

As befitting the Sangju mayor, he knew the city’s structure inside and out.

Tap!

As Young-woo increased his speed further and prepared to shoot weapons consecutively like before, Kim Hyun-ho, who had cleverly detected this, spoke again.

「Leave me alone. After I finish my business, I’ll die quietly.」

“You expect me to leave you alone when it’s obvious you’re going to slaughter people?”

Young-woo was already throwing the dagger from his waist, and Kim Hyun-ho, who had been watching him, twisted his body upon seeing this.

Swish!

The dagger passed near Kim Hyun-ho’s shoulder with a sharp cutting sound.

Then Young-woo’s Early Bird shot toward Kim Hyun-ho’s head, but was immediately blocked by the black sword.

Clang!

But the attack Young-woo had prepared didn’t end there.

Simultaneously with throwing Early Bird, Young-woo himself also drew another Early Bird from his backpack and leaped forward.

「…!」

For Kim Hyun-ho, who had gotten a bitter taste from the diversionary attack earlier, this was a scene that could only make him panic. This time, a three-way attack was approaching.

「Damn it.」

While Kim Hyun-ho, who sensed a terrible future, gritted his teeth and gripped his sword, Young-woo retrieved the weapons he had sent first and swung Early Bird.

Whoooosh!

Naturally, since Young-woo’s attack as the ‘main body’ would be the most powerful, Kim Hyun-ho had no choice but to block his sword first, and therefore had to dodge the remaining blades flying toward his back and right side as best he could.

But wasn’t Kim Hyun-ho currently in a state where half his senses had been stolen by Young-woo?

Clang!

The best he could do was block Young-woo’s Early Bird with his black sword, then twist his upper body as much as possible to reduce his body’s surface area.

Creak.

It was such a frantic movement that the joints of his armor came apart, but it wasn’t sufficient defense.

Due to the height difference with Young-woo, the entry angle of the two blades flying through the air was too steep.

Whoosh!

When Kim Hyun-ho twisted his body to dodge both weapons, the neck of the black horse beneath him was completely exposed.

「Ah…!」

Kim Hyun-ho, realizing this, contorted his face, but Early Bird and the dagger had already pierced into the horse’s mane.

And what happened next was.

「Kruuup!」

Kim Hyun-ho’s scream that wasn’t quite a scream.

Young-woo, who had been expecting the horse to collapse, tilted his head seeing Kim Hyun-ho suffering in pain.

‘What… was that black horse also part of him?’

In any case, there would be no better time than now to end the mayor’s life.

Because for the first time, a ‘Death Strike’ mark had appeared on his opponent.

—Death Strike

There was only one.

It was attached to Kim Hyun-ho’s head, which was shaking frantically in the air.

‘So there was only one weak point.’

When Young-woo raised Early Bird threateningly and looked at Kim Hyun-ho’s head, he too seemed to sense something and shouted with a terrified face.

「W-wait! Hold on!」

Even while saying this, Kim Hyun-ho unconsciously glanced sideways at the apartment complex that stood like a folding screen in the distance.

If only he could have run a little faster… no, if only that crazy bastard in front of him hadn’t interfered, he could have vented his grudge to his heart’s content.

Kim Hyun-ho, who finally began to have doubts about his opponent, asked with a truly incomprehensible expression.

「What are you…? Why the hell does someone like you exist?」

Someone like you.

Kim Hyun-ho felt anger at the very fact that humans more powerful than mutants existed.

According to the ‘voice’ he had constantly heard in the darkness, mutants were sent back to the original world to judge the masses.

But this current state was clearly nothing more than a mere monster, not a judge by anyone’s standards. He hadn’t even been able to fully vent his resentment.

“….”

However, Young-woo didn’t have any answers either.

He too was just a mere human living day by day in this world broken by the reset.

“Why does someone like me exist? I don’t know either. You just get stronger by surviving well in this world. So I actually thought you guys would know the answer.”

Young-woo looked at Kim Hyun-ho, who was still writhing, and raised his sword again.

“But it seems you don’t know anything either.”

Swoosh.

As Young-woo pointed his blade toward Kim Hyun-ho’s head, the creature’s eyelids opened wide.

“Just die now. Let’s make it rain gold.”

Swish!

Young-woo’s silver-white blade cut through the air like an arrow.

「No!」

Kim Hyun-ho screamed, but the blade had already pierced through his skull.

Crack!

Kim Hyun-ho’s head shattered with a sound like crackers crumbling, and simultaneously a white beam of light shot up into the sky.

‘If it rains gold this time too, that’ll be the third time.’

As Young-woo had this thought while looking at the golden sphere Kim Hyun-ho left behind, a new notification appeared in his vision.

「Since the second mutant of Sangju has been eliminated, basic welfare will be applied to this region.」

|Time remaining until Daily Quest application: 20 minutes.

|Time remaining until merchant appearance: 5 minutes.

Grade 4 Human of the Ruined World (Serial)

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